They could at least have the decency to just secretly do it and then pretend like they aren't, like our government does. This is why physical switches and removable batteries are the only way forward.
You'd gain nothing. What are you going to do, remove the battery for a couple hours per day?
And then if there's any crime, the police is going to immediately suspect anyone who had the battery removed from their cell phone at the time, which they can trivially detect.
But that's my opinion.
What else would this imply?
This is a dumb observation.
US people needs to stop pretending the USA are the only place that matters on earth.
1. Most native English speakers are in the US, so the accidental assumption that someone is American is more often than not correct.
2. The internal voice that reads text to me has a generic male American accent.
[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_English...
In other words, if you found yourself in a dark room with a thousand English speakers who all sounded like Jesse Pinkman, what country would you assume you were in?
English is the dominant second language in the world.
That's weird and pretty interesting if your own accent isn't a male American accent.
I feel it's significantly better to know that someone is doing the spying and all that. Why should they hide that they can spy on whoever they choose? When they don't make clear what happens, we end up in a position where everyone's uncertain. And, as history has shown, it makes things significantly more difficult.
There's no decency in that.
Probably that's why the batteries are not removable in the phones...